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22/08/2025

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22/08/2025

Rob May named as new Innovate Awarding boss

The former City & Guilds manager has been appointed to head up the awarding body arm of the Lifetime Group

21/08/2025

🔔 Funding for eight 'youth guarantee' pilot programmes designed to tackle the rising youth NEETS crisis has been extended into 2027.

The programmes, dubbed 'trailblazers', are testing a range of initiatives aimed at reducing youth inactivity and unemployment in eight devolved English regions.

Funding for eight 'youth guarantee' pilot programmes designed to tackle the rising youth NEETS crisis has been extended into 2027.

21/08/2025

Breaking: Pass rates in GCSE maths and English resits have remained stable despite a spike in the number of post-16 students sitting the exams this summer

But males overtake females in maths as colleges brace for even more resit students in English

20/08/2025

😱 FE Exams and emotional wellbeing: FE educator Masha Apostolidu makes the case for kindness in high-stakes moments
https://feweek.co.uk/when-kindness-takes-a-seat-in-the-exam-hall/

20/08/2025

👨‍⚕️ The government’s fresh target of 2,000 more nursing apprenticeships has been described as 'less ambitious' than pledges made when the Conservatives were in power.

In its '10 Year Health Plan for England', published last month, the government pledged to recruit an extra 2,000 nursing apprentices over the next three years.

New target comes ahead of a 'refreshed' NHS workplan later this year

20/08/2025

🥇 An apprenticeship provider that is part of an Ofsted ‘outstanding’ college group has secured its own grade one rating from the watchdog

The feat means all parts of a West Mids college group now hold Ofsted’s top grade

20/08/2025

Online green skills training is now funded or co-funded for adults.
Sabre Rigs and Green Skills Solutions support employers delivering ESG goals while filling local skills gaps.
📈 Green training that’s flexible, scalable, and employer-led.
🔗 Find out more today at the link below:
https://feweek.co.uk/funding-adult-green-skills/

19/08/2025

💸 Income from the government’s controversial 'skills tax' on migrant visas has fallen for the first time in four years, new Home Office figures reveal.

The immigration skills charge was introduced in 2017 as a tax on employers who sponsor visas for workers recruited from overseas to 'incentivise' training British workers instead.

Income from the immigration skills charge fell for the first time in four years amid calls for transparency over where the money goes

18/08/2025

🚧A college is facing claims of "unjust enrichment" in the High Court from property developers who were dropped after spending £6.6m on redevelopment plans for two campuses

A college director allegedly said he would 'run around Wandsworth Park naked' if the deal didn't go through

18/08/2025

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15/08/2025

📢 New shadow education minister Saqib Bhatti has pledged to 'hold Labour to account for their damaging policies and empty promises'

New shadow education minister Saqib Bhatti has said defunding level 7 apprenticeships “hurts social mobility and reduces opportunity”